The Camptown Origins of International Adoption and the Hypersexualization of Korean Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuri Doolan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 351-382 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2021.0032 |
| OpenAlex | W3214178709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Why do so many Korean American women recall being told as young girls that had they not been adopted, they would have grown up to be prostitutes—just like their mothers? This essay addresses that troubling question by reorienting our understanding of the history of international adoption from South Korea. It centers the camptown—recreational spaces around US bases infamous for military prostitution—and the mixed-race children who constituted the vast majority of those sent abroad in the program's initial years, to help explain how adoptee bodies have been coded in the American psyche ever since
Political science · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Recreation · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology
Strategic Occidentalism
Perceptions from Female Transracial Adoptees on Their Adoptive Parents’ Birth Culture Socialization Styles
Anti‐Prostitution Politics and Militarised Urban Prosperity in the US Military Camptown in Korea
Hypersexualisation and racialised erotic capital in sex work
Racing the Korean Imaginary
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |